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Re: [OpenStack] Memory use in Controller and Compute nodes

 

Never mind, Looks like I should be looking at this line which gives the
correct usage which is more or less what I expect.

-/+ buffers/cache:       2009      30163

Regards,
Balu


On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Balamurugan V G
<balamuruganvg@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a 3 node Folsom with Quantum setup. One is a controller node, one
> is a quantum networking node and the other is a  KVM compute node. I see
> that on the Controller and Compute nodes, the memory usage is very high,
> based on the free command output. I have about 8gb RAM in the controller
> node and 32gb in the Compute node.  For example the compute node returns
> this:
>
> root@openstack-kvm1:~# free -m
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:         32173      31619        553          0        115      29494
> -/+ buffers/cache:       2009      30163
> Swap:            0          0          0
> root@openstack-kvm1:~#
>
>
> I am not sure if my interpretation if the output is wrong or if I have a
> genuine memory issue. Any pointers will help.
>
> Thanks,
> Balu
>

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